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Wed Aug 19 14:33:43 BST 2009

RobI remember Elen Mackenzie working on the 'Functional Capacity Index' a
while back.  My understanding was that this was supposed to map AIS scores
to Functional outcomes.  I did try to contact her but had no response at the
time.  There have been a smattering of papers on it over the years but no
formal validation (at least nothing supportive: (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15706185).  Apparently there's a second
edition now though: (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16471159).

Not sure if this is one of those proprietary scales you have to pay for to
use, as it doesn't seem to be published in its entirety anywhere.

Karim

2009/8/18 Robert Smith <rfsmithmd at comcast.net>

> I know some years ago Ellen Mackenzie was working on developing a
> disability tool. I don't know if her work came to fruition. It was an
> ambitious project.
>
> In any event she would be a good person to ask. emackenz at jhsph.edu. If you
> do please share the response with the list.
>
> Rob
>
> On Aug 16, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Karim Brohi wrote:
>
>  Are any of you routinely measuring and recording disability in your trauma
>> population?If so which tools are you using to conduct these assessments
>> and
>> why did you choose that tool over any other?
>> After several decades we seem to have a multitude of different tools, with
>> new ones every year, but very few that have been validated or that have
>> outcomes.
>> Thoughts?
>> Karim
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